You may run into a scenario where a user has configured the Application Under Test (AUT) in IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT) and used Startapp() API to launch the application in Internet Explorer (IE) during the play back run. Although the application launches successfully the next script step (click on hyperlink) fails with " Object not found " exception. The steps to reproduce the issue may look something like this: Configure AUT from RFT>Configure > Configure Applications for Testing... [More]

In taking a look back at our blog activity for 2015 I thought it would be fun to re-share some of the more active blog posts. The following posts were the most viewed in 2015. Enjoy ... The Beta Program is Now Live for IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software 9.5 Blue Diamond Enhanced Secure Support for Healthcare ... [More]

It's quite often that you try to evaluate the performance bottle necks of a given Application Under Test (AUT) with the help of various performance metrics. You might capture these metrics with the help of performance testing tools like IBM Rational Performance Tester or LoadRunner or a wide variety of other tools. The complexity arises when you see several complex requests in transactions and sometimes its confusing when the metric shows no values being captured. This puts... [More]

Say for Example, you execute a script and get the total elapsed time as 0:01:57 milliseconds which means 1 minute 50 seconds, but when you added the response time of all the pages of this script it displays as 12107 milliseconds which means 12 seconds. Below is one such explanation of some of the other factors that make up the total elapsed time. 1. At the end of each page in the test log you'll see a "RTAA" value which is negative. This is an adjustment factor that RPT... [More]

Below I will step you through integrating IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT) with IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM). In order to run the tests from Rational Quality Manager you will need to configure the RPT-RQM Adapter. By default this adapter will be installed during RPT installation. The default location would be: C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\RPT-RST_RQMAdapter First you will need to start the adapter on the RPT workbench machine. This adapter can be started in the below modes: ... [More]

If you are looking for some guidance with configuring Liberty Profile with LDAP, you may want to check out the recently published article " Configuring Liberty Profile with LDAP " in the deployment wiki on jazz.net. The article provides some guidelines for configuring a CLM Deployment using Liberty Profile and LDAP. It includes examples from different types of LDAP environments as well as details about the different parts of the configuration which happen both during the JTS setup and then outside... [More]

After installing IBM Rational Publishing Engine (RPE), if you get an error like this when you try to start it, !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform: !STACK java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:497) at... [More]

Hear from technical experts as our friends at 321 Gang host a technical webcast “Applying the New Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.0 to Large, Engineered Systems”. Date: Thursday, January 14, 2016 Time: 11:00am-12pm Eastern You can register for this webcast on the 321 Gang site at: View All Webcasts by Date where you will also find information about previous and future webcasts.

If you are using RTC configured with IHS (reverse proxy) using SCM list command results in error "HTTP error 414: Request-URI Too Large." Here is an example of what the error might look like : . /scm.sh list components -r repositoryurl --snapshot mysnapshot Returns this result: Service failed to communicate with repository repositoryurl: CRJAZ0098E The com.ibm.team.scm.common.rest.IScmRichClientRestService{/ccm/service/com.ibm.team.scm.common.test.IScmRichClientRestService} service failed. The server returned the HTTP error 414 with... [More]

After upgrading Insight -- which is integrated with CLM -- the "Test Connection" function fails with the following error, but only in the RM XDC file, even though you downloaded the XDC file from the correct RM server: com.ibm.rational.dataservices.client.auth.oauth.OAuthCommunicatorException: CRRE1421E: Can not redirect to the OAuthentication identify URL.' is returned from the remote server through the tested URL. Please provide a valid URL in the URL field. If you still get this warning, please copy the correct "Relative... [More]

If a Rational Insight report displays an IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) custom attribute, and the text in this attribute has two spaces next to each other, the report will display an &nbsp; code instead of the second space, even though these codes do not show up when you look at the data in RTC. You can work around this behavior by removing the extra spaces in the RTC data. This happens because RTC does not format custom attributes (by design). If the text in an RTC custom attribute has two spaces next to each other,... [More]

You can integrate Rational Team Concert with PTC Windchill PDMLink to enable users of both products to coordinate change management activities across Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems. Below is a collection of reference material to help you work with the integration. Product documentation: Integrating Rational Team Concert and PTC Windchill PDMLink Video demonstrations: In these videos Jazz Platform Architect... [More]

Have you been following In the Making which is the official blog of IBM Systems? It is intended to be a platform for dialogue and a source of insight for IT infrastructure leaders and other key technology decision makers. Its mission is to inspire the big IT breakthroughs of today and tomorrow. Within that blog you will also find postings from our recently added “ Straight from our clients ” executive series. Join in to participate in the dialogue and share some of the content you find there with... [More]

Our friends at ALMtoolbox have scheduled a live demo to introduce a new version of their Visual Studio Extension for ClearCase (VA4VS) . The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, December 22, 2015. Tuesday 12/22 at 10AM Central Europe time / 2:30PM India time (duration: 30 minutes). Tuesday 12/22 at 4:30PM GMT / 11:30AM EST / 8:30AM PST (duration: 30 minutes). Check out the following blog post for further details and to register for the webinar: LIVE Demo: Introducing Visual Annotate for ClearCase and Visual... [More]